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Diary of a blood donor

In 1990, the same year as Things in the Night, Unt published a second novel, Diary of a Blood Donor, which displays the usual Untian mixture of fact and fiction, and takes one of the most sacred names in Estonian literature in vain. Lydia Koidula (1843-1886) is widely regarded as the first Estonian woman poet of significance, and also as the first poet to express an Estonian longing for independence
Print Book, English, 2008
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Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, 2008
Fictional Work
212 pages ; 21 cm.
9781564784964, 1564784967
180690002
"Originally published in Estonian as Doonori meelespea by Kupar, 1990"--Title page verso
Translated from the Estonian